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Exporting a movie-based animation from Photoshop

Exporting a movie-based animation from Photoshop

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Exporting a movie-based animation from Photoshop

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- Now that our two files are built, let's move on to creating movies for export. Photoshop makes this pretty simple. With your document open, choose file, export, render video. Now, you'll simply need to choose a few options. It'll take a second for the video export to initialize. In this case, Photoshop's just processing a few things in the background. Give it a name, I'm going to call this Ridge.mp4 Choose a folder. We'll put this here under the Photoshop folder. And then look at the method. I'm going to go with Adobe Media Encoder, and from the popup menu here, I can choose to render out different formats. H.264 will work well for the web, or you can use QuickTime if you want to go to a higher quality format for editing or use in a professional video application. Since this is intended for the web, I'll choose H.264. You'll notice on the preset list several different choices. Now, be careful, many of these have frame rates and aspect ratios applied. I'd suggest targeting something…

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